Does this sounds familiar - a Continuous integration (CI) pipeline is stuck and you need to push a new commit to restart it?

So now you’re looking for a place where you can make a dummy change like deleting/adding an empty line, adding/deleting a dot in a comment - any change, so you can make a new commit and push it upstream.

“There must be a way to create empty commits” you tell yourself but you’re too busy looking for a place to make that dummy change instead of searching for a solution to your problem.

Well, there is a better way!

Git allows you to create an empty commit by simply adding the --allow-empty flag to the commig command. Here 👇

git commit -m "chore: empty commit" --allow-empty

Your job is done. 🎉

Thanks for reading. See you in the next post 😎

Thanks to my colleague Morten Hansen for showing me this tip.

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